Occupied Japan 1945 - 1952: Gender, Class, Race
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Occupied Japan 1945 - 1952: Gender, Class, Race

Bob Hope Visits Geisha House, 1950

"Chotto matte! (Wait a minute!) Mr. Bob Hope—shoes off, it's the custom of the house. The famous comedian walks into a Kyoto geisha house full-shod, on a recent tour to the Korean fighting front [October 1950]."
From: Japan in Pictures, 1945-51. Tokyo: Tokyo News Service, 1951.

 

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